11.10.15 - During
what should have been an active, joyful time, young Karachi resident Kiran Sohail
was plunged into almost a decade of suffering just days after delivering her
first child when she developed the symptoms of a debilitating complication
known as obstetric fistula. …

07.27.15 - At age 15, Gita should have been
cramming for math tests and gossiping with friends. Instead, she was forced to
leave her family and the school she attended in the midwestern hills of Nepal
to marry a man eight years older…

05.12.15 - The Center for Reproductive Rights and URGE: Unite for
Reproductive & Gender Equity strongly oppose measures that limit teens’
access to basic health care, including several bills being considered by the
Texas legislature…

03.26.15 - On Monday,
March 9, 2015, the forecast for the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas called for
heavy rain and thundershowers—with dangerous flash flooding predicted in the
string of border communities that stretch along the Rio Grande in the state’s
southernmost tip…

11.22.14 - “I was
turned into someone’s wife before I knew what it meant to me,” remembers Rahar
Maya Biswokarma, a Nepalese woman who was married off by her family at age 10.
“All my joy was gone at once.”…